Military and Political Figures of the Civil War: Civil War & Reconstruction Mid-Term

People

Abraham Lincoln

ad lawyer, republican president (1861-1865), wasn’t the first pick for politics

Jefferson Davis

Democrat, Confederate president (1861-1865), rich, senator, top pick, war hero

Ulysses S. Grant

General-in-Chief for Union army, led the Union to victory in 1865, struggled in the beginning, officers didn’t like him

William Tecumseh Sherman

Union General, suffered from fear and anxiety, hard war

Robert E. Lee

West Point graduate, brilliant, General and Commander of Confederate Army, and Southern hero

Frederick Douglass

Escaped slavery, important leader for abolition, and writer

Henry Clay

William Lloyd Garrison

Nat Turner

George B. McClellan

John C. Fremont

Smith D. Atkins

Ambrose Burnside

Nathan Bedford Forrest

John Singleton Mosby

Enslaved Africans

No need to pay, harder to run away, own permanently, no rights claims, perpetuating enslaved labor force

David Walk

Andrew Jackson

John C. Calhoun

Fitzhugh

George Fitzhugh

writer and lawyer from Virgina with strong opinions supporting slavery. He argued that slaves have it the easiest at the hands of their white masters. He wrote Cannibals All!, or Slaves Without Masters in 1857

John Brown

antislavery, went to Kansas to fight slavery, wanted to raid the South

Dred Scott

slave from Missouri that was brought into free slave territory. He argued that because he was brought into a free state, he should be freed

Roger Taney

US Supreme Court justice handled Scott’s lawsuit

John Crittenden

Leonidas Polk

Winfield Scott

Anaconda Plan

Irvin McDowell

P. G. T. Beauregard

Andrew H. Foote

Henry Halleck

Simon Buckner

Albert Johnston

Benjamin F. Butler

J. E. B. Stuart

Robert Shaw

Joe Hooker

Stonewall Jackson

John Hunt Morgan

Southern cavalier, gained fame for riding through Kentucky capturing Union soldiers and tearing up rail lines, rode through IN and OH, arrested in Ohio

John Pope

David Porter

William Quantrill

Thomas Ewing

Jesse James

Edmund Kirby Smith

Bloody Bill (William Anderson)